Bluebird: Walmart Wants To Be Your “Every Day Low Price” Bank.
Frustrated with your bank’s surprise fees and minute interest rates? Shop at Walmart? You may find a solution to your woes in an unusual but convenient location: on the “Every Day Low Price” stores’...
View ArticleFiduciary Duties: Legal Obligations or Investors’ Imaginary Friends?
Founded in 1983, Ancestory.com is the world’s largest family history website that provides access to more than ten billion records and thirty eight million family trees.[i] Recently, the London based...
View ArticleCrimes Against Humanity, I’m Lovin’ It: Issues in Sponsorship of the 2014...
Crimes Against Humanity, I’m Lovin’ It: Issues in Sponsorship of the 2014 Sochi Winter OlympicsBy: Inessa Goodman While business leaders and CEOs have never shied away from promoting their political...
View ArticleThe Macy’s, JC Penney, and Martha Stewart Love Triangle: Is Freedom of...
BackgroundIn 2011, Martha Stewart called Macy’s CEO Terry Lundgren and announced she wanted to have her cake and eat it too – she was breaking her contract with the company. [1]The contract granted...
View ArticleThe Necessity of Corporate/NGO Partnerships
While corporations have historically committed human rights and environmental conservation violations, it is undisputed that they have taken several steps in recent years to reduce their negative...
View ArticleFamily Leave in the United States: Time for a Change?
On February 5, 1993, the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (“FMLA”) was signed into law by Bill Clinton, mandating 12 weeks of unpaid family leave for companies with over 50 employees, if the...
View ArticleLessons from Hartney: How to Reduce Tax Forum Shopping by Illinois Retailers
The Illinois’ Local Retailers’ Occupation Tax Acts (ROT Acts) allows “municipal governments and the Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) to impose a retail occupation tax ‘upon all...
View ArticleNational Security Space Launch: No Contest
Competition and innovation are key ideals in American society, and they were the main focus on March 5, 2014 when the CEOs of SpaceX and United Launch Alliance (“ULA”) testified before the...
View ArticleThe Contraceptive Mandate: Birth Control or Business Control?
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on March 25th, 2014, on the Tenth Circuit Case Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. v. Sebelius and the Third Circuit Case Conestoga Wood Specialties v. Sebelius; a ruling is...
View ArticleGovernment Gone Overboard With Sarbanes-Oxley
For most, it would be a stretch to compare the acts of a corporate executive who shredded company documents in order to cover up financial fraud with those of a fisherman who threw a few...
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